MANAWATU REPERTORY SOCIETY.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVI, Issue 92, 18 March 1936, Page 2

MANAWATU REPERTORY SOCIETY.

To-morrow night the Manawatu Repertory Society presents three staged oneact plays in the Empire Hall. ’This is the first of three such evenings by means of which it is intended to give all members desiring it experience in staged productions as well as readings. The programme is a varied one, the throe plays being tot all ydissimilar in period, players and plot. Those who enjoyed meeting the so refined old maids of '“Quality Street’’ a fortnight ago will be delighted to make the acquaintance of some contemporaries of the Misses Trosscl in “Tho Spinsters of Luslio” (Philip Johnson) produced by Mrs \V. M. Webster, which provides another delightful glimpse of Early Victorian gentility. From tho parish of Lushe, tho scene shifts to South Kensington with a background of Central Africa. The tactics which an extremely modern young wife adopts in order to combat the fascination which Darkest Africa exerts on her husband, provide tho situation in “Women Do Things Liko That” (Olive Conway) produced by Miss Al. Richards. The final presentation is “The House With the Twisty Windows” (Alary Pakington) produced by Aliss U. Hancock, which has its setting m the cellar of a house in Petrograd where some English people are confined during tho time of tho Bolshevist Red Terror. In this very fine play tho tense atmosphere, lightened but not entirely vanquished by the charm of the “Irish Hans Andersen,” culminates in an unexpected and dramatic denouement. The three plays are under the genera! supervision of Alias U. Hancock and sho and her associates have gone to considerable pains to make the evening a memorable one.